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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 27% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
fixed weekdays
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 28 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
The current map
Thursday 29 October 2026, 10:11 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 10:55 UTC
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. 28 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, with 1 more in the queue. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
The wipe rhythm on Facepunch Staging Creators is every 5 weeks on Thursday at 10:11 UTC. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 11 hours have passed since this world was generated.
A playrust.com hostname is published by Facepunch Staging Creators and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Facepunch Staging Creators fits: Official Rust servers, live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Boxes: Official only.
official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp0 (Max players): The slot count is 0; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2636 (Protocol): You need protocol 2636 on your game to get in; cs169627 (Build): The game build is 169627; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here: that is the tag list Facepunch Staging Creators publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
The count on Facepunch Staging Creators stands at 0 right now. Peak over the past week: 3. Average: 0 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 20:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Player hours over seven days put Facepunch Staging Creators at #5,972, in the top 27% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Facepunch Staging Creators states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 8432123, generated by the game, runs on Facepunch Staging Creators. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Nothing on Facepunch Staging Creators states a region. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 198.244.177.77:28023.
Server fps averaged 152 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 56. Entity count reached 120,000: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 4,068 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Facepunch Staging Creators operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now Facepunch Staging Creators is online. About 9 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 198.244.177.77:28023 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.